Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) took this photograph of the Alps from the International Space Station, andposted it to social media on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014. She wrote, “I’m biased, but aren’t the Alps from space spectacular? What a foggy day on the Po plane, though! #Italy”
Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti
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Natarajan
The nature of human beings is Love (prema). You cannot survive even for a moment, when deprived of Love. It is the very breath of your life. When the six vices, to which you were attached for so long, disappear, Love will be the only occupant of your heart; but Love has to find an object, a loved one. It cannot be alone. Direct your heart full of love towards the dark-blue Divine Child, the charming Lord, who is the Embodiment of Love, Purity, Service, Sacrifice and Selflessness. Then there will be no scope for any other attachment to grow. Let this love for the Lord, step-by-step become deeper, purer and more self-denying; until at last, there is no other need for thought and the individual is merged in the Universal. When Vaasudeva, the Lord, enters the heart of man, demons have no longer a place therein. Darkness and light do not co-exist; Light removes every inch of darkness.
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One day, a cowboy rode into a Wild, Wild West town. The people in the town love to play jokes on visitors. After tying his horse to the pole outside a bar, the cowboy went in. “A cup of milk please.” he said to the bartender. After drinking, he went out, only to find his horse missing. Knowing that the villagers did it, he went back into the bar and said to everybody,” I am going to have another drink and when I finish it, I want to see my horse outside! Or else, I will have to do what I did in Texas – HERE!” The people were very frightened. When he finished his drink, he went outside and saw his horse. The villagers had put it back. Curious, the bartender asked the cowboy,” What did you do in Texas?”
The Cowboy replied,” Well, I had to walk home !!! SOURCE:::: http://www.joke a day.com Natarajan |
Source: Daily Mail
A trip across the world’s first peak-to-peak suspension bridge is by no means for the faint of heart. Strung up to connect Glacier 3000 to the Scex Rouge, the Peak Walk by Tissot stands 9,800 feet above sea level. Located in the Swiss Alps, the 351 foot-long walkway gives visitors a view of 24 surrounding peaks, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and Jungfrau mountains.
Source: IB Times
The Peak Walk bridge opened last week with a ceremony and press conference at Glacier 3000’s Restaurant Botta. And it was erected very quickly: construction began this past September. Yet the bridge’s chief engineer, Bernhard Seiler, ensured that the bridge was built to withstand the harsh winds and heavy snowfall that often frequent the area. Costing 1.8 million Swiss francs (around 1.87 million USD), Peak Walk by Tissot will remain open year-round, and is free for all visitors.
Source: Daily Mail
Source: Daily Mail
Surprisingly enough, Peak Walk bridge is only Switzerland’s second highest suspension bridge; the Titlis Cliff Walk suspension bridge, which is similarly located in the Swiss Alps, stands 10,000 feet above sea level. Suspension bridges without vertical suspenders (like the Peak Walk bridge) are often used in mountainous parts of the world due to their simple structure.
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Natarajan
மார்கழி மாதத்தின் சிறப்புகள் பற்றி காஞ்சி மகாபெரியவர் சொல்வதைக் கேட்போமா!
மிருகசீரிடம் என்ற ஒரு நட்சத்திரம் இருக்கிறது. அதற்கு அடுத்த நட்சத்திரம் ஆருத்ரா எனப்படும் திருவாதிரை. “ஆருத்ரா’ என்றால் “நனைந்து’ என்று பொருள். மிருகசீரிஷத்திற்கும், திருவாதிரைக்கும் இடையில் பவுர்ணமி சந்திரன் இம்மாதத்தில் வருகிறார். ஆதலால் தான், இந்த மாதத்தை சமஸ்கிருதத்தில் “மார்க்கசீர்ஷம்’ என்று அழைக்கிறார்கள். மார்க்கசீர்ஷி என்றும் சொல்வர்.
இம்மாதத்தில் திருவாதிரை அன்று பவுர்ணமி சந்திரன் சேரும் போது, பனியுடன் கூடிய மதியின் கிரணங்களால் பூமி குளிர்கிறது. இம்மாதத்தில் தான் மேகங்கள் கருவுறுகின்றன. கோடைகாலத்தில் காய்ந்த உலகம், மார்கழியில் தாபத்தை எல்லாம் போக்கிக் கொள்கிறது.
இந்த மாதத்தில் சிவபெருமான், அம்பாள், திருமால் என்ற மூன்று ஜோதிகளாய் பிரிந்த பரம்பொருளை வழிபட வேண்டும். அதிகாலையில் இவர்களுக்கு பொங்கல் நைவேத்யம் செய்ய வேண்டும். இதனால் மனசுத்தம் ஏற்படும்.
கேரளாவில், இளம்பெண்கள் தினமும் காலை 3 மணிக்குள் எழுந்து, கையில் குருத்துகளை ஏந்தி கூட்டம் கூட்டமாக குளிரில் நடுங்கியபடியே, ஆறு குளங்களை அடைந்து நீராடி, கண்ணனின் திருஅவதாரப் பாடல்களை உயர்ந்த குரலில் பாடுவார்கள்.
இந்த மாதத்திற்கு “ஆக்ரஹாயணீயம்’ என்று நிகண்டு ஒன்றில் சொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளது.
அப்படி பார்த்தால், இதுவே வருடத்தின் முதல்மாதம் என்று ஆகிறது.
“ஹாயணீயம்’ என்றால் “வருடம்’. அக்ரம் என்றால் என்றால் “முதல்’ என்று பொருள். ஆங்கிலப் புத்தாண்டின் முதல் மாதமான ஜனவரியும், இந்த மார்கழியிலேயே பிறக்கிறது.
தேவர்களுக்கு ஆறுமாதம் பகல், ஆறுமாதம் இரவு. பகல்பொழுதின் முதல் மாதமே மார்கழி. அதுவே அவர்களுக்கு விடியற்காலை. தை மாதம் அவர்களுக்கு சூரிய உதயம். இதனால் தான் நம்முடைய மார்கழி மாதத்தின் ஒவ்வொரு நாளும், தேவர்களுக்குரிய மார்கழி மாதமும் மிகுந்த சிறப்பு பெறுகிறது.
இதன் அடிப்படையிலேயே, “”மாஸானாம் மார்க சீர்ஷோஸ்மி’ என்று பகவான் கண்ணனும் கீதையில் கூறுகிறான். அதாவது மாதங்களில் நான் மார்கழி என்றும், அதுவே சிறந்த மாதம் என்றும் பொருள்படுகிறது. இதனால் தான் தோழியருடன் ஆண்டாள் திருப்பாவை பாடி, இந்த மாதத்தில் நோன்பிருந்தாள். மாணிக்கவாசகரின் திருவெம்பாவை இந்த மாதத்தில் பாடப்படுகிறது.
இந்த மாதத்தின் புனித நாட்கள் திருவாதிரையும், மகாவியதிபாதமும் ஆகும். இந்நாட்களில் சிவாலயங்களில் அபிஷேக ஆராதனை நடக்கும். அன்று தீர்த்தக்கரைகளுக்குச் சென்று முன்னோர்களுக்கு தர்ப்பணம் செய்ய வேண்டும். இந்த அனுஷ்டானத்தால், நமது பித்ருக்களுக்கு (முன்னோர்) விசேஷ திருப்தி ஏற்படுகிறது. மேலும், அகம்பாவ தோஷம் அழிவதுடன், பேராசையால் ஏற்பட்ட தோஷமும் போய்விடுகிறது.
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SOURCE:::: http://www.periva proboards.com
Natarajan
If you’ve been paying attention on Facebook recently, you might have noticed a friend or two sharing a story about a phenomenon that would supposedly be happening in early January of 2015.
“Strange natural occurrences are happening in the world today. But nothing more magnificent than the one you will experience on January 4, 2015,” Daily Buzz Live’s story reads. “According to British astronomer Patrick Moore, at exactly 9:47 PST AM on January 4th, Pluto will pass directly behind Jupiter, in relation to Earth.”
The story, from Daily Buzz Live, stated that there would be a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment where Pluto would pass directly behind Jupiter, which would counteract Earth’s gravity for a short period of time, rendering everyone on the planet briefly weightless.
Sounds cool right? Sounds maybe a bit unbelievable?
If you saw this story and were sceptical, you had every right to be: it’s just not true.
The Daily Dot did a really great job at debunking this hoax that was shared over one million times on Facebook.
“If planetary alignments ever caused worldwide weightlessness, they would likely have heard about it more than a few weeks before the next one. They would likely have read about in their high-school science textbooks,” Aaron Sankin of The Daily Dot writes.
The Daily Dot continues,
Anyone who did a simple Google search for the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect would have found its Wikipedia page and learned from its first sentence that this particular scam has been repeated ad nauseam for four decades.
The story is fake, and Daily Buzz Live often posts fake stories, much like The Onion. But the difference is that The Onion is 100% satirical, while Daily Buzz Live publishes real stories alongside its fake stories.
“On Daily Buzz Live, meanwhile, the real and the unreal are intermingled, with no labels separating them. The planetary alignment story sits next to stories about factual events like “8 Photos Of Shocking Police Brutality On Peaceful Protesters and Civilians” and “Horrific Racist Song About Michael Brown At Charity Event ‘And He’s Dead, Dead, Michael Brown’“” The Daily Dot reports. “These are pieces that wouldn’t be out of place on real viral news sites.”
Meanwhile back on Facebook, the story is getting hundreds of thousands of shares, complete with this photo of what looks like a tweet from NASA.
The tweet, like the story, is fake and was created on a site called LemmeTweetThatForYou.com, says The Daily Dot.
So what happens to a publication when its satirical story, in an attempt to be passed off as real, ends up going massively viral on the world’s largest social network?
The answer is, absolutely nothing. But before you share a story that seems too good, or too bizarre to be true, it’s best to make sure that it actually is.
SOURCE::::Caroline Moss in http://www.businessinsider.com.au
Natartajan
An AirAsia plane went missing during a flight to Singapore shortly after asking to deviate from its planned flight path because of bad weather.
AirAsia flight QZ 8501 lost contact with air traffic control at about 6:17 a.m. on Sunday, about halfway through the flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore. The plane is thought to have crashed near the Indonesian island of Belitung, but search and rescue teams have yet to find any wreckage.
Satellite imagery from the area where the plane went missing showed severe thunderstorms around the time it disappeared:
CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam said “lines of very heavy thunderstorms” were present when the plane was in the air, but also pointed out that “turbulence doesn’t necessarily bring down aeroplanes.”
The search and rescue operation has been suspended overnight. Singapore’s air force and navy is helping with the operation to locate the plane.
Here’s where it lost contact with air traffic control:
155 Indonesians are on board the plane, along with three people from South Korea, and one from Singapare, Britain, Malaysia, and France. Of those passengers, 16 are children and one is an infant.
The missing plane is an Airbus A320-200, a popular and generally reliable model. The plane is about six years old and is operated by AirAsia’s Indonesian affiliate, which the Malaysia-based company holds a 48.9% stake in, CNN reports
SOURCE::: PAMELA ENGEL in http://www.busionessinsider.com.au
Natarajan
Everyone should treat whatever happens to them as gifts from God. Pleasure and pain should be treated alike as Divine gifts. There is a unique joy in this process. In daily life we tend to treat defeat, loss or grief as calamities. But nothing occurs in the world without a cause. Hunger is the cause for eating. Thirst is the cause for drinking. Difficulties are the cause of sorrow. If you would like to enjoy enduring happiness, you must discover the source of such happiness. That source is love(prema). There is nothing greater than love in this world. Everything has a price. The price to be paid for enduring happiness is Divine Love. The primary wealth for man is Love. Everyone should seek to acquire this wealth. With this wealth anyone can enjoy enduring bliss.
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